Schools ban Grubhub and other food deliveries during school day

John Wisely Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 AM EDT Apr 10, 2019 Instead of packing lunches, many high school students now pack their cellphones, ordering food delivered to their school with apps like Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats. The deliveries have become so frequent and disruptive that many schools have banned them. “It was getting to the point where you’d have eight, 10, 15 deliveries a day,” said Pat Watson, principal at West Bloomfield High School, which recently reminded students to knock it off. “It’s a building policy: You can’t have food delivered during the school day.” Other schools have done the same thing. More: Best frozen fish fillets: How these 6 brands ranked in taste test More: Pesticides in fruits and vegetables: List of cleanest, dirtiest “We view it as a safety concern,” said Diane Blain, spokeswoman for Chippewa Valley Schools in Macomb County. “Having strangers and people that we don’t know coming to our buildings with delivery bags, we just don’t allow it.” Blain said the district’s Dakota High School banned the practice about three years ago, and its other high school, Chippewa Valley, followed suit. Some schools have policies explicitly prohibiting it. Others frown on it, but don’t formally ban it. All of them say the practice has exploded with cellphone use and the proliferation of delivery services. Grade-school deliveries High school students aren’t the only ones who order food deliveries to school, said Jeff Hueter, assistant manager of the Jet’s Pizza on Orchard Lake Road about a mile north of West… [Read full story]